February 28, 2012
Magic deny rumors of Dwight Howard-to-Lakers trade
Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins is denying a rumor that the team has reached a deal with the Lakers to trade Dwight Howard to Los Angeles for a package including Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The rumored deal would also…
February 28, 2012
Hunte to apologise to PM over offensive remarks
President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Julian Hunte plans to visit Kingston shortly to apologise to Jamaican Prime Minister Protia Simpson Miller for “inappropriate” remarks made last week by the WICB secretariat, a reliable cricket…
February 28, 2012
G20 finance ministers ask eurozone to boost rescue fund
Eurozone countries need to put more money in their rescue fund before G20 nations can step in to help them, the G20 finance ministers have said. They said such a move was "essential" to their decision to provide more resources to the…
February 28, 2012
China reforms needed to sustain growth, says World Bank
China needs to embrace fundamental free-market reforms if its economy is to continue to grow at the "impressive" pace of the past three decades, the World Bank has said. The country had reached a "turning point" and needed to reform a growth…
February 28, 2012
Greece bailout: German MPs give strong backing
German MPs have voted by 496 to 90 to back the second EU/IMF bailout for Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel had urged them to back the deal, while conceding there was "no 100% guarantee" it would work. Several MPs in her party opposed the deal but it…
February 28, 2012
Payroll tax cut? ‘In your dreams’, says Premier
Premier Paula Cox told businesses in Bermuda to ‘keep dreaming’ about getting a payroll tax reduction today at the Chamber of Commerce’s Budget breakfast panel discussion hosted by PwC. “In your dreams”, she lightheartedly said to a chuckling…
February 28, 2012
Prosecutor says hard drives erased in Stanford case
A prosecutor has told jurors at Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's fraud trial that computer hard drives belonging to the outside auditor for Stanford's Caribbean bank apparently were erased after the auditor died. The prosecutor's comment came…
February 28, 2012
Michigan, Arizona Hold Republican Primaries Tuesday
U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are competing in two closely watched state primaries Tuesday after a day of campaigning in one of them — Michigan. Michigan and the southwestern state of Arizona hold Republican…
February 28, 2012
Pentagon: Protests Will Not Alter Afghan Mission
U.S. defense officials say the military remains committed to its mission in Afghanistan, despite days of violent protests and attacks on foreign troops that have left close to 40 people dead, including four Americans. Pentagon officials Monday…
February 28, 2012
ALL STAR GAME-CHANGE
The slap could be heard from the floor high up into the seats. Kobe Bryant spun around to the baseline and Dwyane Wade slammed him hard from behind across the shoulders and the nose. It was like a family argument that had spilled over unpredictably…